Project Officer

I have a fantastic opportunity with NHS Digital for a Project Officer. This role is a temporary assignment for initially 5 months with view to being extended thereafter. Monday to Friday and full time 37 hours a week.

The Project Officer is responsible for managing the delivery of one or more small/medium projects to time, cost and quality criteria, which meet internal and external customers requirements. These will usually be individual projects, stages of a larger project or work streams within a programme.

You will be is responsible for defining, documenting and safely executing projects or a number of smaller initiatives, actively participating across the project lifecycle to ensure deliverables are accomplished as specified. You will participate in assurance and approvals processes to support the effective delivery of projects and programmes, and have a key role in providing specialist Programme Management Office (PMO) and/or PMO specialist portfolio management services within the wider organisation. In addition, you may act as a critical friend to quality assure project and programme documentation and, in so doing, provide advice on corporate policy and best practice to project managers.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS and KNOWLEDGE

Recognised project management qualification at foundation level; eg, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience. · Qualification or equivalent experience demonstrating proficiency of MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook).

Exposure of applying project management practices, tools and techniques and using effective quality and risk & issue management strategies.

Exposure of successfully planning, managing, delivering and closing small/medium projects in accordance with an organisations project management framework to:

Proven ability to analyse complex data, to present summaries, and to develop options and cost/benefit/risk appraisals.

Exposure of identifying and monitoring risks and issues, assessing their impact and probability, and of supporting the development and implementation of mitigating actions, escalating as appropriate.

Ability to communicate complex information within the scope of the role?s responsibilities such as high quality reports and updates, verbally and in writing, to a range of internal and external stakeholders and colleagues in a variety of different formats, tailored to meet their respective needs and expectations.

What now?

To apply either submit your CV via this advert or call Michelle Boylan on 01189 588 990